Film Format: DCP

  • Helium

    Commissioned by the 8 Fest for its 10-year anniversary, “Helium” is a dual-projector work that explores the worlds of competitive bodybuilding and balloon fetish. Originating from a deep fascination of the ability to derive such intense pleasure from otherwise innocuous objects or activities, “Helium” observes inflation, lust, and explosion.

  • Pierre Radisson – Fjord and Gulf

    “Pierre Radisson – Fjord and Gulf” presents the daily activity and environment of its eponymous Canadian Coast Guard Icebreaker. The CCGS Pierre Radisson works year round providing escorts for commercial shipping to ports cut-off by ice, scientific and search and rescue support, among other activities. Shot during the Pierre Radisson’s work on the Saguenay Fjord and Gulf of St. Lawrence in Quebec during February 2016, the film provides a window into a portion of the invisible labour underpinning the Canadian economy. The film brings the deep winter landscapes of coastal Quebec into dialogue with intensive industrial activity of ore shipments…

  • The Williamsburg Houses

    This film gazes into the architecture and lives of the occupants of one of the most ambitious public housing projects ever built in the US. Exploring the remains of a utopian design in contemporary context, we are immersed in the life of a building and a community.

  • Golden Boat

    Inside a derelict warehouse in the middle of a salt pan, people from around the world are waiting to be taken to a mysterious place that promises a better life. Some find the wait intolerable, desperate to leave and to explore the imagined possibilities on the other side. For others, the house offers a momentary respite from a troubled past and the difficult migrant life that awaits them in the future.

  • Our Second First Date

    A woman is magically forced to repeat the same date over and over again until she can make it go perfectly.

  • Lions in Waiting

    The newest member of a minor league hockey team, Ray, experiences hazing by his teammates as he struggles to fit in both on and off the ice. Ray will have to find the courage to accept himself first-and maybe even inspire a fellow teammate. Award: Best of BC, Chilliwack Independent Film Festival, 2018; Emerging Student Filmmaker Award, North Bay Film Festival, 2017

  • More Love. Less Prepackaged Bullshit.

    Set to the soul beat of Assata Shakur, a trio of black transwoman, brown transmasc genderqueer person and a white queer cis man resist dystopia with a sweet bowl full of joy, intimacy and love.

  • Older Than What?

    Aging has a tendency to fade people out of the picture. Older Than What? brings LGBTQ elders sharply back into focus with humor, frankness, wit and charm. 12 seniors answer 10 questions about aging and share stories about how they made history. International Short Film Competition, Asterisco Festival Internationciale de Cine LGBTIQ, Buenos Aires, 2017 (Juried) Gold Award, Documentary Category, South Georgian Bay Film Festival, Collingwood, Canada, 2018 (Jury & Audience votes) Audience Award, Best Documentary Short, Cineffable, Paris, France, 2018 Audience Award, Best Short, USNExpo, Sardinia Queer Short Film Fest, Sardinia, Italy, 2018 2nd Place, Audience Award, Best Short,…

  • RUPTURE

    By and large humans tend to create narratives about themselves, then often make great effort to conform reality to that narrative. This was not a threat to planetary survival 10,000 years ago when we were scattered in small bands worshipping local deities and relying on nearby gathered foodstuffs with only stone tools. It is quite an other thing when we are packed into mega-cities with nuclear weapons and ambiguous connectivities, along with relationships imbued in instruments that far exceed an individual’s capacity to fully comprehend or to realibly navigate our various systems. Sequence in order of appearance: Secret Bunker –…

  • The Third Movement

    World-renowned transgender classical pianist, Sara Davis Buechner, lost a flourishing New York career after transitioning from male to female. The Third Movement is an intimate portrait that explores Sara’s battle to earn back her spot on the world stage, while also facing trans-targeted stigma and bias. As Sara dreams about a comeback, she helps guide the next generation of piano greats on their rise to the top. Ultimately, the film is a creative and nuanced depiction of an artist with unrelenting determination in the face of discrimination.